17 Feb
2007
17 Feb
'07
9:29 a.m.
On 17-Feb-07, at 2:06 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
who is talking about FOSS? I said I consider it Open Source Software - OSS
Oh, so FOSS is different from OSS?
yes
I thought FOSS was simply a way to combine the words Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) to say Free & Open Source Software (FOSS).
no
If you go by the definition, then FS is not different from OSS. So basically all FS is OSS and vice versa (except a *very few* which are not).
all FS is OSS, but not all OSS is FS
But I guess I was wrong ..
yes
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon@au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/